Book Release: 'this is what it felt like'

Today is a very exciting day because ‘this is what it felt like’ is officially available to order on Amazon worldwide! This collection of poems documents my experience of falling in love for the first time.

This has been a beautiful way for me to store these memories—memories full of all of the complexities that come with loving another person.

Most stories I grew up consuming about love and relationships were not reflective of the love and relationships I was seeing and experiencing in real life. I think love is often portrayed as this very intense, sexy, heart racing, accelerated experience, and it can be all of those things, but it can also feel safe, uncomfortably vulnerable, steady, and less of the constant adrenaline and euphoria we see portrayed in media/film/books. My experience of falling in love, therefore, felt so different compared to all of the content I had consumed about the subject while growing up, and this felt very confusing to me, and I started to question if I knew what love was. This is what motivated me to provide an honest perspective of what falling in love felt like to me.

As you will read in the book, I explore all of the emotions, ones that I am less proud of—like jealousy, fear, possessiveness, doubt, insecurity, anxiety, panic, cynicism—and ones I really cherished feeling—like safety, giddiness, pleasure, tenderness, peace, compassion, comfort, and curiosity. I think everyone will be able to relate to this journey, as it is one that is truly universal.

Thank you to everyone who has shown me so much love and support since I started this journey, I am so grateful to be able to share this second collection of poetry with you. You give me the courage to keep sharing.

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I hope you love ‘this is what it felt like’ as much as I loved creating it!